Dunedin police were involved in a high-speed pursuit after a driver was spotted doing a burnout in Dundas St, Dunedin, about 1am yesterday.
When the patrol car approached, the car was driven off at high speed, Senior Sergeant Bruce Ross said.
The patrol car pursued the vehicle as it went through a set of red lights at the corner of Great King St and Pine Hill Rd at 100kmh, he said.
Continuing into North Rd, the car reached a speed of more than 120kmh, before the officers abandoned the chase because of the risk to the public, he said.
At 1.20am, police spotted the car in Norwood St, and the driver gave himself up.
A 31-year-old Mosgiel man will appear in court on April 22, charged with causing a car to undergo sustained loss of traction, failing to stop and dangerous driving.
- With the help of DNA, police have apprehended two 20-year-olds in connection with an assault in Dunedin more than three years ago.
On November 15, 2004, the two men were apprehended by workers after they allegedly siphoned petrol from a car in Glasgow St, Dunedin.
A man was assaulted during the incident, and the case had remained unsolved until now, Sergeant Chris McLellan, of Dunedin, said.
DNA from the hose used to siphon the petrol matched that from a man apprehended in Greymouth last month, he said.
The man was arrested on an unrelated charge of wilful damage. His DNA was sent to Auckland and a "DNA hit came back''.
Two people had been identified, Sgt McLellan said.
A second man, from Dunedin, has been arrested in relation to the incident, and the pair will appear in court next Thursday.
- Police are asking the driver of a dark-coloured Toyota Cressida who may have information about a stabbing in Mosgiel this month, to come forward.
Senior Sergeant Darryl Lennane said Mosgiel police understood the car was in the Kinmont Cres area just after a 59-year old Mosgiel resident was stabbed about 8.40pm on April, 8.
"The driver of the car would have seen the victim and so we are interested in talking with that person,'' he said.
The man had been asked the time and when he replied he did not know, he was sworn at and stabbed in the back.
